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Lot 88

An Italian Partizan, And An Italian Halberd
Both Late 16th/Early 17th Century

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,062.50 inc. premium

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An Italian Partizan, And An Italian Halberd
Both Late 16th/Early 17th Century

The first with leaf-shaped blade with pierced and pounced decoration, the latter retaining minute traces of gilding, and tapering faceted socket with openwork feature at the top formed of six loops (one missing) each chiselled with a central mask, on remains of original wooden staff (lower section replaced) covered in green velvet (plush worn off) studded with dome-headed brass nails, some of the heads embossed as florets; the second with double-edged leaf-shaped blade, beaked crescentric axe-blade and fluke, and tapering socket of circular section with shortened side-straps, on later wooded staff of octagonal section partly covered in velvet with tassel, and studded with dome-headed brass nails (both with some rust patination) (2)
28 cm. and 33.5 cm. heads

Footnotes

For a similar example to the first and sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms & Armour, 14 April 2005, lot 143

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